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Nausea and eating

Fizzy water helped and I cannot explain why

Started 3 March 2025 · 15 replies · 150 hearts · read 3.3k times

CasperOdense, DK · 3 March 2025
1.4 years ago

A question rather than an update: Fizzy water helped and I cannot explain why

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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MossHebden Bridge, UK
#1

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#2

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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MimiHong Kong
#3

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#4

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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DaraAthlone, IE
#5

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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PerlaManila, PH
#6

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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TemSouthend, UK
#7

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#8

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#9

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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VivLuton, UK
#10

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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Bell ANorwich, UK
#11

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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RayBarnsley, UK
#12

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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GabePhoenix, AZ
#13

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#14

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#15

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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